DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Artemisia nova | Black Sagebrush 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Primarily a Great Basin species, black sagebrush has a scattered
distribution throughout much of the western United States.  Its range
extends from Montana south through Wyoming and Colorado to northern New
Mexico and westward through the southern third of Idaho.  This species
occurs most commonly in Utah and Nevada but occurs in scattered
locations in California, Arizona, and Oregon [5,6,62].



ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  CA  CO  ID  MT  NV  NM  OR  UT  WY


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BICA  BLCA  BRCA  CHCU  COLM  DEVA
     DINO  GRCA  GRBA  MEVE  ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K037  Mountain mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K039  Blackbrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta - three-awn shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K066  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
         Disturbed


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   216  Blue spruce
   217  Aspen
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon - juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Black sagebrush is considered a climax species and has been used as an
indicator in a number of habitat-typing systems within the
sagebrush-grass region.  It also occurs as an understory dominant within
forested communities.  Forested habitat types using black sagebrush as
an indicator have been identified within ponderosa pine, juniper, and
pinyon-juniper series [1].  Published classifications listing black
sagebrush as a dominant or indicator species include:

Presettlement vegetation of part of northwestern Moffat County,
  Colorado, described from remnants [2]
Vegetation and soils of the Crane Springs Watershed [11]
Vegetation and soils of the Rock Springs Watershed [12]
Vegetation and soils of the Churchill Canyon Watershed [14]
Habitat types of the Curlew National Grassland, Idaho [20]
A classification of forest habitat types of northern New Mexico and
  southern Colorado [23]
Phyto-edaphic communities of the Upper Rio Puerco Watershed, New Mexico [27]
Preliminary habitat types of a semiarid grassland [28]
Grassland, shrubland, and forestland habitat types of the White
  River-Arapaho National Forest [30]
Sagebrush-grass habitat types of southern Idaho [31]
Plant associations of Region Two: Potential plant communities of
  Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas [35]
Grassland and shrubland habitat types of western Montana [43]
Grassland and shrubland habitat types of the Shoshone National Forest [54]
Coniferous forest habitat types of central and southern Utah [66]
Artemisia arbuscula, A. longiloba, and A. nova habitat types in northern
  Nevada [67]

Related categories for Species: Artemisia nova | Black Sagebrush